Corporate Blogging Policy

Brian Bailey, web director @ Fellowship Church, shares FC's new blogging policy for their employees at his blog.  He also links to several other corporate blogging policies. 

Thanks Brian!

Link

Comments

[Betsy]

Interesting. Thanks for the link!

[matt]

One thing about church policies that I toatally understand the moral issues of, but don't agree with the legal aspects of is the church owning you off the clock.
Example: If I work at Wal-mart, but like to shop at Target, they can't fire me as long as I do it off the clock. If I work for Marlboro, but promote an anti-smoking organization they can't fire me as long as it's on my own time. Why? Because it's on my own time and as long as what I do on my own time doesn't affect me at work (getting drunk off the clock, but still being drunk when I clock in affects me - where sobering up first doesn't)

Churches are different. They will fire you for not following church policy or even doing something equivalent to working at Wal-Mart, but shopping Target on and off the clock, which legally raises the question, "Are you ever off the clock?" Salaried employees - okay there may be some reasoning there, but hourly employees - that adds up to a lot of OT pay.

I'd be interested to find out what the law says about churches governing action of non-salaried / non-clergy employees off the clock.

[matt]

Answered my own questions. This link is pretty comprehensive on the subject.

http://www.shrm.org/hrmagazine/articles/0203/0203hirschman.asp

If it affects job performance or company image then it's easy to fire. If "at will" employment then no problem either, unless for a protected reason.